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Author
Publication Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A collection of Norwegian folktales all featuring trolls: The Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Boy Who Became a Lion, a Falcon, and an Ant, Butterball, The Boy and the North Wind, The White Cat in the Dovre Mountain, The Sailors and the Troll, The Eating Competition, and The Troll with No Heart in His Body.
Author
Publication Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Did you know that museums were initially temples built to worship the nine muses, the goddesses of the arts? That Janus was the god of the doorways and hallways, and we have named our janitors after him? Where did these words--and other words, such as chaos, genius, nemesis, panic, echo, and narcissus--come from? From the ancient stories of the Greeks--stories that rang so true and wise that the names of the characters have survived for centuries...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Publication Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 0.5
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
In this retelling of an Ojibwe tale, a girl's act of bravery to save her family leads to the appearance in the world of the delicate and tender flower called the lady's slipper.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Publication Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm. $
Language
English
Description
Tells how the infant Prince Hakon is rescued by men fiercely loyal to his dead father, who ski across the rugged mountains in blizzard conditions to save him from his enemies, the Baglers.
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date
[2017].
Physical Desc
85 pages : col. ill. ; 22 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of seven Norwegian folktales from various historical and international sources, all featuring trolls and showing how even small children can trick them. Includes an introduction explaining what trolls are and how they came to be.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Publication Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Never pick a lady slipper. If any part is picked, the entire flower dies. And it grows there, in the northern woods, to mark the courage and strength of a small girl who lived long ago—a girl who saved all of her people from a terrible disease by listening carefully to the whispering snow, the rumbling ice, and the dancing northern lights.